The application of redemption

The second sort of hard-hearted sinners, or of a further and higher degree in this hardness, are such as have been exercised under the displeasure of the Almighty, […] had many stabs by the Truth, and threatenings of the Word, and have had many bruises and blows from the Dispensations of God in his Ordinances, deeply affected, and almost […] […] with the danger of their ⟨p. 435⟩own Estates, and the dreadfulness of those everlasting burnings which now they felt in their souls, and were not able to bear; but at last they have SHOOK OFF THEIR TERROR, […] away the vexation, and trouble that lay upon their spirits; and now they grow more fierce and hard-hearted than ever before, and dare out-face and out-brave the severest threatenings, the most dreadful Judgments that can be denounced, and which they find & confess themselves liable unto; having their conscience seared with a hot Iron, 1 Tim. 4. 2, & themselves becoming fearlessly impudent to adventure upon sin, without the least touch of any remorse or trouble for it. The time was they confess they sate with trembling hearts under the Dispensation of the Word, and so silly and feeble spirited they were, that their hearts failed with fear, and […] away in the apprehension of the heinousness of their sin, and the unsufferable plagues that were due thereunto. But now that dale is […], those days are past, they have got more wit and skill than to be scared with such Bug-bears, they can tell how to fence themselves against such fears and disquiets, they can sit and hear, and attend all that can be said, let them speak while they will, and wear their […] to the stumps, they can hear all, and slight all; nay, rather than fail, deride and make a mock of what they have heard, but to be troubled at what they hear, they are […] such Babies, they are not so much as stirred with any thing: Oh woe to thee that ever thou sawest thy heart at this pass, the greater will thy trouble be one day: The Devils believe and tremble, and doest not¹ thou stir? Art thou in Hell here on Earth before thou comest thither? and dost thou come short of the Devils themselves in sensibleness of heart, and canst thou content thy self, yea bless thy self in this condition? Hear what God hath determined against thee, and will certainly bring upon thee,